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Perfect for Valentine’s Day, Jason Perlow’s look at the worst mergers in technology industry history.

Valentine’s Day is here again, and love is in the air. Couples flirting, courting each other and forming relationships. And sometimes those relationships result in marriage.

In the tech world, much of the same types of things occur. And as with human relationships they also can end up in marriages — also known as corporate mergers. Mergers can result in the two parts being stronger than the whole, or they can end in utter disaster.

Love affair Spoiler Alert:

Caldera and SCO

Palm and HP

Oracle and Sun

AOL and Time Warner

HP and Compaq

Microsoft and Danger

Borland and Ashton-Tate

Novell and Unix

Google and Motorola

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